Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:29:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Rick Siple <RickSiple@mpainc.com> Cc: "Questions Mailing List (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: xdm and vtys Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612032906.11999A-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <11FFBC5E23EDD111AF8D006008CEB82D014D64@EXCHANGESERVER>
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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Rick Siple wrote: > I have noticed some odd behavior from XDM that I am hoping > someone can enlighten me on. I realize X related question should go to > the X mailing lists but I thought this might relate to FreeBSD's VTYs. > I moved the xdm command from /etc/rc.local to > /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d, for no good reason other than it seemed to be the > logical place to start all X related services. Anyway, when started > from here xdm seems to start before the VTY manager and grab the > console. In this case the Alt-function and Ctrl-Alt-Function key combos > don't work, they just beep. More importantly though the keyboard does > not work, you can not type into the xdm login window. This was easily > fixed with a five second delay in the sh script that starts xdm so no > big deal, just interested in what is actually going on. I think init and xdm get in a war over the keyboard. I'd suggest thowing a `sleep 5' just before xdm launches to make sure everythng's settled down first. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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